ISSUE 56 AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER APRIL 13 – JUNE 28, 2012 SILENT H Jack Nicholson H Peter Falk H Raj Kapoor H Studio Ghibli H Monty Python H PATTON in 70mm CINEMA AFI.com/Silver SHOWCASE Contents AFI Life Achievement Award: Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine ...................................2 April 22–June 11 Jack Nicholson: A Retrospective ................4 GAMBIT “Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine’s illustrious career comprises more Cockney cat burglar Michael Caine enlists the aid of Silent Cinema Showcase .........................7 is a powerhouse of than 50 feature films highlighted by an Academy Hong Kong hoofer Shirley MacLaine to distract wealthy art Courtesy of MGM Peter Falk Remembered ..........................8 personality that has Award win and six nominations, as well as six Emmy collector Herbert Lom long enough for Caine to swipe a Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata and illuminated screens large Award nominations recognizing her work in television. priceless objet d’art. Director Ronald Neame’s frothy caper and small across six She made her screen debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s THE earned three Oscar nominations for its exquisite art direction, the Masters of Studio Ghibli .................10 Courtesy of Everett Collection decades. From ingénue TROUBLE WITH HARRY, and went on to work with a costumes and sound. A remake comes out later this year PATTON in 70mm ...............................11 to screen legend, Shirley number of celebrated filmmakers, including Billy Wilder, starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman, from Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian has entertained a global William Wyler, Vincente Minnelli, Robert Wise, Don a script by the Coen brothers. DIR Ronald Neame; SCR Jack Davies, Alvin Cinema .............................................12 audience through song, Siegel, Bob Fosse and Hal Ashby. She will next be seen Sargent; PROD Léo L. Fuchs. US, 1966, color, 109 min. NOT RATED Korean Film Festival DC 2012 ..............13 dance, laughter and on screen in Richard Linklater’s BERNIE and will join the tears, and her career cast of TV’s international sensation DOWNTON ABBEY THE APARTMENT Horses in Cinema ................................13 as writer, director and for its third season. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, in career-making Special Engagements ..........................14 producer is even further performances, lead an outstanding cast in one of the AFI’s 40th Life Achievement Award will be presented screen’s most poignant comedies, a workplace romance Calendar ............................................15 evidence of her passion to MacLaine at a gala tribute on June 7, 2012, in Los for the art form and her seemingly boundless talents. There of uncommon sophistication. Motivated by vague promises Angeles, and broadcast later that month on TV Land. of promotion, lowly insurance clerk Lemmon lets his bosses Monty Python at the Movies .................16 is only one Shirley MacLaine, and it is AFI’s honor to AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films use his apartment for their late-night assignations. When Opera & Ballet in Cinema ....................16 present her with its 40th Life Achievement Award.” — Sir he falls for elevator operator MacLaine, ex(-ish)-girlfriend of in the Shirley MacLaine series Howard Stringer, Chair of AFI’s Board of Trustees boss Fred MacMurray, the moral dilemmas begin to mount. LOOK FOR THE Ten Oscar nominations and five wins, including Best Picture, THE APARTMENT Schedule Director and Screenplay for writer/director/producer Billy To become a Member of AFI visit SOME CAME RUNNING Wilder. DIR/SCR/PROD Billy Wilder; SCR I. A. L. Diamond. US, 1960, b&w, 125 min. AFI.com/Silver/JoinNow. 35th Anniversary! TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA Dissolute ex-GI Frank Sinatra, once a promising novelist but NOT RATED ARTISTS AND MODELS THE TURNING POINT In 1860s Mexico, during the Juarista resistance to the forces now a bitter alcoholic, returns to his hometown with floozy TICKETS Sun, Apr 22, 7:00; Wed, Apr 25, 6:45 The road not taken gets a going over when Shirley of Emperor Maximilian, mercenary Clint Eastwood rescues Shirley MacLaine in tow. There, Sinatra meets and falls • $11.50 General Admission MacLaine, who left a promising ballet career to get nun Shirley MacLaine from a spot of bother involving three ill- SOME CAME RUNNING hard for art teacher Martha Hyer, but he just can’t quit the married and start a family, meets her former colleague intentioned thugs, only to then be persuaded into helping her • $9 Seniors (65 and over), students Sat, Apr 28, 4:20; Sun, Apr 29, 7:30 allure of the seedier side of life, drinking and gambling with with valid ID, and military personnel Anne Bancroft, who sacrificed everything to become the get revenge on the Mexican Army. Eastwood mentor and Dean Martin, and in MacLaine’s stubborn devotion, he sees THE CHILDREN’S HOUR company’s prima ballerina. But Bancroft’s star is now fading, frequent collaborator Don Siegel directs a script by former • $8.50 AFI Members (2-Star level & up) the possibility of redemption. Vincente Minnelli’s complex, Mon, May 14, 7:00; Wed, May 16, 7:15 just as MacLaine’s talented daughter Leslie Browne joins blacklistee Albert Maltz, from a story by Western great Budd critical-minded drama of postwar America was based on the • $7 Children (12 and under) the company. Eleven Oscar nominations — including Best Boetticher that recalls the made-for-each-other bickering of GAMBIT novel by James Jones (“From Here to Eternity,” “The Thin Red • $8.50 Matinee tickets, weekdays Picture, Director and Screenplay, plus nods for MacLaine THE AFRICAN QUEEN and the sexual tension of HEAVEN Tue, May 15, 7:00; Wed, May 16, 9:30 Line”); William Daniels’ CinemaScope photography and Elmer © United Artists/Courtesy Everett Collection and Bancroft in the Best Actress category, and Browne and KNOWS, MR. ALLISON, with cinematography by the great before 6:00 p.m. (holidays excluded) Bernstein’s pounding score lend great atmosphere. DIR Vincente THE APARTMENT Gabriel Figueroa and a score by Ennio Morricone. DIR Don Minnelli; SCR John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman, after the novel by James Jones; PROD Sol C. Mikhail Baryshnikov for supporting roles — but no wins, Siegel; SCR Albert Maltz; PROD Carroll Case, Martin Rackin. US/Mexico, 1970, color, 116 AFI PREVIEW is published by the Thu, May 17, 7:30; Fri, May 18, 5:15; Sat, May 19, 11:00 a.m.; Siegel. US, 1958, color, 137 min. NOT RATED BEING THERE tying THE COLOR PURPLE as Oscar’s most unrewarded American Film Institute. Sun, May 20, 1:30 honoree. DIR/PROD Herbert Ross; SCR/PROD Arthur Laurents. US, 1977, color, 119 min. RATED PG min. RATED PG All screenings take place at the AFI Silver Theatre BEING THERE THE CHILDREN’S HOUR #26 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs and Cultural Center: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT Fri, May 25, 7:00; Sat, May 26, 7:25; Sun, May 27, 4:30; “She found the lie with the ounce of truth.” Shirley MacLaine BEING THERE Thu, May 31, 9:00 SWEET CHARITY James L. Brooks’ adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s humorous 8633 Colesville Road and Audrey Hepburn, two headmistresses at a private “I like to watch.” Peter Sellers is a simple-minded gardener Bob Fosse’s clever and heartbreaking novel exults in the ups and down of Silver Spring, MD 20910 THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY girls’ school, are plagued by allegations of an “unnatural” who has lived his entire life on an estate in an isolated transposition of life and love as experienced by Shirley MacLaine and Mon, May 28, 4:30; Wed, May 30, 4:30; Thu, May 31, 6:45 relationship made by a malicious youngster, the daughter corner of Washington, DC. When the estate owner dies, For address changes and subscription Fellini’s NIGHTS OF her daughter Debra Winger. Winger marries Jeff Daniels, services, contact: of a prominent family in the town. Director William Wyler Sellers is forced out into the world for the first time. A chance THE TURNING POINT CABIRIA to New York a likable English professor who has a wandering eye; previously filmed Lillian Hellman’s play in 1936 as THESE meeting with society doyenne Shirley MacLaine (he is hit by American Film Institute City featured wife MacLaine hasn’t dated since her husband died, but despite Tue, May 29, 4:00; Wed, May 30, 6:45; Thu, May 31, 4:00 THREE with Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea, her car) introduces Sellers to a crowd of Washington movers 2021 N. Western Ave. Gwen Verdon in the strong misgivings, begins a relationship with neighbor Jack SWEET CHARITY revised into a heterosexual love triangle by scripter Hellman and shakers, people who, though rich and powerful, are Courtesy of Universal Pictures Los Angeles, CA 90027 Broadway original, Nicholson, a retired astronaut and inveterate womanizer. Fri, Jun 1, 4:30; Sun, Jun 3, 3:30; Tue, Jun 5, 4:20; Wed, Jun 6, 4:20 herself, but returned to the source material to make this 1961 hungry for wisdom, and take his simplicity and homespun Attn: Membership big shoes ably filled This film established the template for Brooks’ blend of adaptation, now from a script by Hitchcock collaborator John pronouncements for profound philosophy. Sellers earned an TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA by Shirley MacLaine high-styled comedy and dramatic pathos. Eleven Oscar Michael Hayes (REAR WINDOW, TO CATCH A THIEF). DIR/ Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and Melvyn Douglas won On the cover: A TRIP TO THE MOON, nominations, with wins for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Sat, Jun 2, 12:30; Mon, Jun 4, 4:20; Thu, Jun 7, 4:20 PROD William Wyler; SCR John Michael Hayes, after the play by Lillian Hellman. US, 1961, Best Supporting Actor for his turn as MacLaine’s powerbroker in the screen version.